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<title>Maintenance Mode</title>

<para>You can enter rescue mode by running:

<screen>
$ systemctl rescue</screen>

This will eventually give you a single-user root shell.  Systemd will
stop (almost) all system services.  To get out of maintenance mode,
just exit from the rescue shell.</para>

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